Since it opened its doors in June 2006, Mr B’s Emporium of Reading Delights in Bath has become famous amongst lovers of indie bookstores for its decor and its innovative book recommendation products and reading gifts. We’d learned of their Reading Spas and Reading Subscriptions whilst researching our bibliotherapy article of last month and were […]
Saturday 3 October 2020 is Bookshop Day across the nation. To celebrate, we have teamed up with some amazing independent bookshops which we want to highlight. One of our bookshop partners is Mostly Books, Abingdon. We interviewed owner Sarah Dennis about the team’s experiences during lockdown and reopening. As a bookseller, I imagine that a […]
Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about young love by Matthew Twigg. Matthew Twigg lives with his wife and two children near Oxford, where he works as an editor for an academic publisher. He […]
Last week the Fairlight Books team went to the London Book Fair. There is nothing quite like two halls overflowing with book lovers - we’re a passio
Our latest title, A Saint in Swindon, is a unique book: a collaborative work of fiction based upon an idea created by readers in Swindon, written by p
Last week (14/10) we published a piece on Authors Electric blog asking writers’ input on how to solve industry-wide issues in the publishing submis
Özgür Uyanık’s debut novel, Conception, was published by Fairlight Books on 2 July 2020. Conception is the journey of an anonymous artist, a
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Each week, we pick a short fiction piece from our Fairlight Shorts archives to feature as our story of the week. This week, we’ve chosen a story about young love by Matthew Twigg. Matthew Twigg lives with his wife and two children near Oxford, where he works as an editor for an academic publisher. He […]